. A description of the East, and some other countries . O N I T A L Y. works done by the late pope, and view thofe things, of which there isno account in the writers of Rome. Among the antiquities of the Ca-pitol there is a bronze vafe, lately found in the port ot Antium, whichis engraved in the nincty-fecond plate, from a drawing fent by abbot Re-villas : There is an infcription round the infide of the vale, which wastraced of, as it is engraved on it, and flievvs exacily the circumferenceof the vafe ; according to the obfervations of the learned profefforWard of Grefliam college this vafe is
. A description of the East, and some other countries . O N I T A L Y. works done by the late pope, and view thofe things, of which there isno account in the writers of Rome. Among the antiquities of the Ca-pitol there is a bronze vafe, lately found in the port ot Antium, whichis engraved in the nincty-fecond plate, from a drawing fent by abbot Re-villas : There is an infcription round the infide of the vale, which wastraced of, as it is engraved on it, and flievvs exacily the circumferenceof the vafe ; according to the obfervations of the learned profefforWard of Grefliam college this vafe is fuppofed to have been the pre-fent of Mithridates Eupator, king of Pontus, to the Eupatoriftje of theGymnafium of Delos ; thofe officers are fuppofed to have been calledfo in honour of this prince, and confequently the vafe was broughtfrom Dclos to Antium. The ninety-firft plate fliews the four fides ofa fragment of red ^Egyptian granite in the ifland of the Tiber at Rome ;it is before the entrance to the convent of faint Bartolomeo; and is fup-pofed
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